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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who puzzles over Lomax's devotion to Walker in Chapter X?
(a) Frye and Stoner.
(b) Stoner.
(c) Katherine and Finch.
(d) Stoner and Finch.

2. How does Edith buy new clothes after her father's death?
(a) Money from her mother.
(b) She steals them.
(c) Money left in the will.
(d) She gets a job.

3. How many seminars are students required to take to finish a doctorate at Stoner's university?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

4. What does Katherine do after she resigns from the university?
(a) Gets married.
(b) Leaves town.
(c) Moves to Hawaii.
(d) Kills herself.

5. Who arrives late for Stoner's seminar in Chapter IX?
(a) Hollis Lomax.
(b) Charles Walker.
(c) Ed Frye.
(d) Katherine Driscoll.

6. What does Stoner refuse to let anyone do during his questioning of Walker in his oral examination?
(a) Talk.
(b) Breathe.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Interrupt.

7. Who aided Lomax in engineering university policies to help Walker?
(a) The president of the university.
(b) Gordon Finch.
(c) The dean.
(d) The chancellor.

8. What does Stoner question Walker about to see his basic knowledge during his oral examination?
(a) History of literature.
(b) The Canterbury Tales.
(c) Renaissance literature.
(d) Shakespeare.

9. How does Lomax say that Stoner has treated Walker after he refuses to pass him?
(a) Logical.
(b) Fair.
(c) Prejudicial and unfair.
(d) Insane.

10. Where does Stoner begin spending his time after Edith remodels his study?
(a) The library.
(b) The university.
(c) A park.
(d) The beach.

11. Who questions Stoner about his conduct against Walker in Chapter X?
(a) Hollis Lomax.
(b) Gordon Finch.
(c) Ed Frye.
(d) Archer Sloane.

12. What subject does Stoner begin teaching radically and causing complaints from students?
(a) History of the World.
(b) The Sonnet.
(c) Modern Renaissance.
(d) General English.

13. Where do Stoner and Katherine go for their only trip away together?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) The Ozarks.

14. Who cautions Stoner about his affair with Katherine because he could lose his job?
(a) Lomax.
(b) Finch.
(c) Frye.
(d) Masters.

15. What does Stoner come down with in Chapter XIV?
(a) Mono.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Severe flu.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the weather outside described when Stoner has his first out-of-body experience?

2. Who begins questioning Walker during his oral examination that dashes Stoner's hopes for him?

3. What does Stoner's student who audits his seminar present her final presentation on in Chapter IX?

4. What is the name of the head of the freshman English department that complains to Lomax about Stoner?

5. Who is described as being only a little annoyed by Katherine and Stoner's relationship?

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